Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-07-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

1t is bad for young trees to have
wheat, oats or clover growing about
their roots. Keep the ground clean by
the use of the hoo.
When n hot dish is TO bo brought
to the table covered, always have the
cover well heated, which prevents the
condensation of steam in the lid.
To Polish Tinware: First rub with
damp cloth, then take dry flour and
rub on with hands, afterwards rub the
flour of with an old newspaper, and
the tin will shine like ncw.-Household.
Delicious Breakfast Cake. One
egg, one cup of milk, two cups flour,
one and one-half tablespoonsfuls melt
cd butter, one-half tcaspoonful soda,
one teaspoonful cream tartar, one
tablespoonful sugar.-Good Cheer.
Prof. L. b. Arnold says butter
keeps best, and is fresh and swoe'
longer, when granuated in the churr
and freed from buttermilk by working
1t should then be soaked in supcrsatur
ated brine at 60 degrees for half an
hour, and packed at once withou
working.
--Gooscborry Jam: Stew the berries
in little water, then strain through
sieve and return to the preserving
kettle, adding three quarters of pound
of sugar to each pound of stcwod fruit,
and let it boil until it will harden when
n little is exposed to the air upon
spoon.-Erchdnge.
Ornamental Frostins: For this
purpose use n small syringe, drsw it
full of the icing and work in any de-
sign you may fancy. Wheels, Grccian
border, flowers, or borders of beading
look we'll. In the absence of a syringe,
the icing may be applied through a
sheet of stiff writing paper, rolled or
folded into the form of funnel.-In-
dianapoiis Sentinel.
Keep an eye on the markets. Don't
pay more than market rates for what
you have to buy. Get the full value
for what you have to sell. A farmer
has a right to be as much business
man as a merchant or a manufacturer.
After earning money by raising a good
thing, don't lose it by lack of knowing
what its value is, and then not getting
it-Our Country Home.
Why not have hoe-handles fiat or
oval, like axe-handlesp With such a
handle the workman can strike more
accurately and so work nearer the
plants, because the hoe will not turn in
his hands. The edge will wear evenly
and the hoe last longer than with the
old round handle. The wrist is not so
soon tired nor the hands cramped with
the fiat handle. When you come to
repair the old hoes put an oval handle
in one of them.-Farm Journal.
1t is not generally best to keep all
kinds of stock in the same pasture
field, but observing farmers have found
hat it pays to change stock OCCASION
lily during the grass season. The idea
n doing so is that one kind of stock
nay like the kind of grass that another
may not eat. The sheep may eat just
what cattle or horses may leave, and
rice versa. 1t is worth taking
nto consideration by those who wish
% get the most good out OF their pas
ures.-St. Louis Republican.
-Sleeplessness: Rise early, exercise
reely in the open air. and do not sleep
n the daytime. Eat light suppers,
md retire at regular hour. Sponge
he body with tepid water, and rub
,riskly with coarse towel. Winter
light clothes should be made of fan
lei, sufficiently long to cover the feet
md prevent contact with cold sheets
Do not give a child paregoric or sooth-
ng syrups for sleeplessness or fretful-
less Sedatives should never be ad-
except by the advice of n
'hysician.-Farm, Field and Stock
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